NCAA FOOTBALL 2024 MEGA THREAD - WELCOME TO THE PLAYOFF ERA
Just 8 days until Florida State plays Georgia Tech!
A lot happened while you were away:
Texas and Oklahoma joined the SEC
The Pac-12 went out in a blaze of glory:
Oregon, Washington, USC and UCLA are headed to the B1G
Utah, Arizona, Arizona State and Colorado are headed to the B12
Cal and Stanford along with SMU are somehow headed to the ACC
Poor old Wazzu and Oregon State are now aligned with the MWC in some sort of in-flux relationship
The conferences are huge now, and the schedules are wildly imbalanced. Florida might have the hardest schedule in the history of the sport, while Missouri's playing a sun-belt slate.
FSU and Clemson play each other, but then play ZERO common ACC opponents
Utah/Baylor and Arizona/Kansas State play non-conference games against conference opponents
LSU and USC play in Vegas!
Boise goes to Oregon, a team they've never lost to!
Texas at Michigan!
Alabama at Wisconsin!
Notre Dame at ATM!
Clemson vs Georgia!
And there are some incredibly juicy new conference matchups:
Texas @ ATM is back!
Texas vs Georgia
Oregon vs Ohio State
USC @ Michigan
USC vs Penn State
And then the bizarre:
UCLA @ Rutgers is now a conference game
Syracuse plays home and away against Cal and Stanford for some reason
Half the teams have new coaches, transferred quarterbacks, or both!
Let's get it on!
As a regular watcher of B1G football games, I am greatly enjoying the emergence of this hilarious "OMG the Refs are biased against Ohio State" narrative.
IT is unlikely to make a difference but our two bowl games came with lost equity from creative PI calls. They were basically both the same play where the WR reverses and hooks back toward and underthrown ball contacting the defender chasing him.
It's an SEC crew tonight, I think the Big2 cartel > regional rivalry.
Of course it would be good for the ACC. You don't have to "imagine" a scenario where it works to help the ACC. Rather, the hard part is coming up with a scenario where it does not help them. That is the whole problem with this angle-shooting idea.
I am pretty sure the CFB Board or Managers would have concerns if any conference decides to designate their "Conference Champion" from a 2nd vs 3rd game.
This won't be allowed because it shines a light in the absurdity of crowning a 'champion' based on the one end of season game. You have to rack your brain just to remember the times that the CCG was not an exhibition game for the best team vs an also-ran.
I swear to hear these super dynasty coaches talk it's like so simplistic. Saban reminds me so much of Wooden in that regard. Almost like that Chauncey Gardner character. Saban: "Yeah, if you get a bunch of explosive plays you score a lot. You need more than your opponents." Wooden: "Yeah, I think Lew can play center for us if he earns the starting job." Over and over and over.
What a day! First black coach to get a title on MLK day?, inauguration of pre-Civil War mentality, Freeman against alma mater, Freeman going for the 3rd year ND magic, game in Atlanta, arctic chill hits DC symbolic of demise/turning point of the great experiment. Like I always say, this stuff gets Shakespearean.
I swear to hear these super dynasty coaches talk it's like so simplistic. Saban reminds me so much of Wooden in that regard. Almost like that Chauncey Gardner character. Saban: "Yeah, if you get a bunch of explosive plays you score a lot. You need more than your opponents." Wooden: "Yeah, I think Lew can play center for us if he earns the starting job." Over and over and over.
Saban and Wooden have another thing in common:
Spoiler
They're both cheaters
ND
Pretty voice and not too much French pastry. Did they say she is deaf??
That's good. I've never seen it. I've hardly seen any of the sports movies. They just never did it for me in terms of realness in the game scenes, but I guess it isn't the game scenes that make them good.
But no "You gotta give it 200%" on there?
I loved "Rudy". Just wanted to get that out in the universe before the game starts.
tOSU: 28
N.D.: 12
That's good. I've never seen it. I've hardly seen any of the sports movies. They just never did it for me in terms of realness in the game scenes, but I guess it isn't the game scenes that make them good.
But no "You gotta give it 200%" on the list?
No, but they do pile up quite nicely.
This is a rare one in that there's no big game or anything it's building towards.
I hate getting the ball first.
I don't anticipate Ohio State to sit in soft quarters to long in this game. But I get it, they don't want Leonard to move around much. But man, make his early throws challenging. I don't like allowing Leonard to find some pace for them.
At first I thought they were broadcasting with no announcers. Then a little. Then some more. Then back to full speed.
It was much better earlier on with only an occasional comment. Muting completely is too much, but sparse commentary is so much better!
Hey guys I'm pretty sure Ohio State can snuff out a rb sweep
OMG, get out of quarters. Bad miss by Leonard but these safeties are playing timid.
My god this is actually happening. So fired up right now. Thank god I live in the right universe.
I thought it started at 5 wtf
just an awesome drive
Hate that play call. Gotta pitch it back 8 yards there
Hell of a start
I hate ND as much as any team in college ball, but I might have to pull for them here.
Nauseating feeling.
Not going to lie, I do enjoy the fact that the Notre Dame OC's entire game plan throughout the playoffs has been to say to Riley Leonard "okay, now imagine that you're Tim ****ing Tebow".
